Edgar Sturtevant
Edgar Howard Sturtevant (March 7, 1875 – July 1, 1952) was an American linguist. Biography Sturtevant was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, the older brother of Alfred Sturtevant and grandson of educator Julian Monson Sturtevant. He studied at Illinois College, where his grandfather was president, and obtained an A.B. from Indiana University, then the University of Chicago receiving there in 1901 a Ph.D. with a dissertation on Latin case forms. He became an assistant professor of classical philology at Columbia University before joining the linguistics faculty at Yale University in 1923. In 1924, he was a member of the organizing committee for the founding, with Leonard Bloomfield and George M. Bolling, of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Besides research on Native American languages and field work on the Modern American English dialects, he is the father of the Indo-Hittite hypothesis, first formulated in 1926, based on his seminal work establishing the Indo- ...
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Jacksonville, Indiana
Jacksonville is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, Jefferson Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, Switzerland County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Jacksonville was platted in 1815. A post office was established at Jacksonville in 1841, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1867. Geography Jacksonville is located at . References

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